EngO vs Plts
 

Can anyone point me to a link showing the breakdown by trade of RAF Officers, particuarly the number of Engineering Officers and Pilots? Have just spent 30 minutes on Google to no avail!

Probably a secret :E

Try http://www.dasa.mod.uk/ which tells all the information you are supposed to have :) You might find that the data is now only held for 'flying branch' rather than pilot. If you have access to a MOD internal website PM me. If you don't try a FOI request...

I don't know the figures but I can tell you one thing there is far too many of them!

toddbabe

Agreed

The figures I have are not recent and also not of the same time but are interesting anyway.

In 1988 the then Air Sec announced that the junior officer aircrew cadre would reduce to 1000 seats. He included sqn ldrs.

In 1992 redundancy the JO Eng pool was 841 and the sqn ldr pool was 843.

In 1996 the JO Supplier pool was 337. Int O was 134.

They are about as interesting as staple err sorry stable belts and which way up you should wear them.

well said -does anybody on prune have a life anymore

Watch it, I'll hit you with my handbag.

Just curious, but I must ask: why?

What's you're point? Who cares?

God, you lot are a bunch of arrogant gits, aren't you? Chap politely asks a question and all he gets are adolescent, snide remarks. If the thread bores you, then bugger off and and read something else.

JA,

In 2006, the eng figures were:

8 plt off
137 fg off
725 flt lt
623 sqn ldr
246 wg cdr (although all are GD branch at wg cdr and above)
64 gp capt
12 air cdre
6 avm
1 am

However, between 05 and 08, the branch as a whole was due to reduce from around 1430 to about 1200.

Assuming Red Line Entrys' figures are correct, and that the RAF has 600 aircraft (probably too many!) then each individual aircraft can have an engineering team which includes:

1/2 Wg Cdr engineer
1 Sqn Ldr engineer
1 Flt Lt engineer

I also thought that the Eng Branch was an inverted pyramid at one level, with more Sqn Ldr Engineers than Flt Lts, it certainly used to be!!

Don't forget that the Eng Branch includes both AS an CE engineers. The recent round of redundancies has evened (moment of spelling uncertainty) the branch up so that there are almost equal numbers of each at JO level. There are however a lot of CE Sqn Ldrs.